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Rigetti Rises on IonQ-NVIDIA Partnership
Rigetti Computing Inc. (NASDAQ:RGTI) shares are rising after IonQ Inc. (NYSE:IONQ) announced a partnership with NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA)
to bring the first quantum processor to NVIDIA's Accelerated Quantum Research Center.
The IonQ Superion 256 system will be installed at the facility and directly linked with an NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 system via NVIDIA NVQLink, with workloads orchestrated by NVIDIA's open CUDA-Q platform.
The joint research program will focus on hybrid software development and large-scale system prototyping, targeting applications including portfolio optimization and risk modeling in financial services, materials science, and computational chemistry for drug discovery.